4C Synergy EdTech Tools! by David Balmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2 Check out the tools below and see how they can create 4C Synergy in YOUR classroom! en-us 2018-07-22 22:49:05 UTC 2025-12-15 00:28:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Thunder.png 20) Crio from Curriculum Pathways! davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270806861 Build digital lessons like never before. Not a programmer? No problem. Crio enables anyone to create interactive, online resources using elements designed to foster higher-order thinking.

At Curriculum Pathways we’re so passionate about education that in addition to building our resources, we’re now also giving you the tools to build your own.

#createwithcrio

Click the link below to find out more!]]> 2018-07-22 22:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270806861 19) EdPuzzle davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270862551 Make any video your lesson

Pick a video, add your magical touch and track your students' understanding

EdPuzzle is the perfect tool for allowing students to watch and engage with videos while the teacher gathers data throughout the lesson. As teachers dabble into the flipped classroom philosophy,EdPuzzle is the perfect enhancement tool for videos to be watched at home instead of eating up valuable class time.
https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/edpuzzle-teacher-review/4004456

Sign up to find out more below!

]]> 2018-07-23 12:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270862551 18) ABCya davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270862719 ABCya is the leader in free educational computer games and mobile apps for kids. The innovation of a grade school teacher, ABCya is an award-winning destination for elementary students that offers hundreds of fun, engaging learning activities.

Millions of kids, parents, and teachers visit ABCya.com each month, playing over 1 billion games last year. Apple, The New York Times, USA Today, Parents Magazine and Scholastic, to name just a few, have featured ABCya’s popular educational games.

]]> 2018-07-23 12:30:10 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270862719 17) Quizizz davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270862761 Class Quiz Games with Quizizz Quizizz is an alternative to Kahoot, and there's also a lot for educators to like.  Just like Kahoot, the teacher (or student host) chooses a quiz to begin. A five digit game code is provided.
Quizizz allows you to conduct student-paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages. The salient features include:
  1. Student-paced: Questions appear on each student's screen, so they can answer questions at their own pace, and review their answers at the end.
  2. BYOD: Can be played by students using any kind of device with a browser, including PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Learn more.
  3. Thousands of public quizzes: Amazing teachers around the world create thousands of great questions on Quizizz every day! This community effort generates great content that everyone can use.
  4. Quiz Editor: The Quizizz editor is the most awesome quiz editor in the world! Well... we think so at least... do let us know if you don't agree :)
    We take the hassle out of creating quizzes by allowing you to pluck questions from any quiz, easily add images from the internet, auto-save your progress and tons of other features. Learn more.
  5. Reports: Our reports give you detailed class-level and student-level insights for every quiz you conduct. You can also download the reports as an Excel spreadsheet. Learn more.
  6. Quiz Customization: Teachers have multiple options to customize their quiz session to toggle the level of competition, speed, and other factors. Learn more.
]]> 2018-07-23 12:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270862761 16) GoSoapBox davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863137 GoSoapBox is a powerful, flexible, and intuitive student response system for educators to use in their classrooms. Leveraging web-enabled devices, teachers digitally engage students to conduct formative assessment and gain insight into student comprehension that was never before possible.
https://www.gosoapbox.com/tour

]]> 2018-07-23 12:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863137 15) Google Expeditions davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863206 Google Expeditions is an immersive education app that allows teachers and students to explore the world through over 800 virtual-reality (VR) and 100 augmented-reality (AR) tours. You can swim with sharks, visit outer space, turn the classroom into a museum, and more without leaving the classroom.

Available on Apple & Andriod
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/expeditions/id1131711060?mt=8

]]> 2018-07-23 12:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863206 14) Thinglink davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863375 ThingLink is a product identification tool that makes it easy to add clickable tags to any image on the web and share the tagged images on social networks. Any publisher or brand can distribute tagged images to bloggers and other publishers and still receive traffic back to the original image source.]]> 2018-07-23 12:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863375 13) Piktochart davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863508 Piktochart is a web-based infographic application which allows users without intensive experience as graphic designers to easily create infographics and visuals using themed templates. Wikipedia]]> 2018-07-23 12:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863508 12) Buncee davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863578 Buncee's interactive, drag and drop interface helps students and educators create engaging multimedia projects and presentations to increase interactivity and flip the classroom. ... With a wide array of graphics and intuitive media tools, students can explore their creativity while having fun.


]]> 2018-07-23 12:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863578 11) Trello! davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863671 Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

A Trello board is a list of lists, filled with cards, used by you and your team. It's a lot more than that, though. Trello has everything you need to organize projects of any size. Open a card and you can add comments, upload file attachments, create checklists, add labels and due dates, and more.]]> 2018-07-23 12:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863671 10) #Codesnaps by Curriculum Pathways davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863807 CodeSnaps is a collaborative coding environment requiring only one robot and one iPad. You'll take advantage of tangible, printed coding blocks to prepare programs together on a work surface without a device. When blocks are scanned with the CodeSnaps app, the program is then executed on the connected robot.]]> 2018-07-23 12:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863807 9) Recap davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863948 Recap is question-led chat tool augmented by the power of video that makes it easier to start deeper, more empowering discussions with students and teachers.]]> 2018-07-23 12:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270863948 8) Screencastify davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270864053 Screencastify is a screencasting extension for Google Chrome. It allows you to record your screen activity for creating tutorials, etc, and runs entirely in Chrome, so opens the possibility of screencasting up to Chrome .]]> 2018-07-23 12:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270864053 7) Lino or Linoit davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270866734 Linoit is an online tool which can serve as a virtual bulletin board for both students and teachers. This tool offers a variety of canvases (backgrounds) for users to choose from and allows them to post sticky notes, videos, and documents to these canvases.]]> 2018-07-23 13:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270866734 6) Book Creator App davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270866930 Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. With over 30 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds ofbooks, including children's picture books, comic books, photobooks, journals, textbooks and more.]]> 2018-07-23 13:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270866930 5) Canva davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270867033 Easily create beautiful designs + documents with your students or for your professional - personal use. Use Canva's drag-and-drop feature and professional layouts to design consistently stunning graphics.]]> 2018-07-23 13:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270867033 4) Zeemaps! davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270867122 Welcome to the ZeeMaps World of Maps. Map making is an ancient art and science, dependent on complex mathematics, cartography, and surveying. In the early days, specialized cartographers hand-made maps, based on calculations and data available through enormous hard work and labor.

Create a map by clicking on the orange ‘Create a Map’ button on the ZeeMaps homepage. ... add pins on the map to mark the locations of people or places. ... Yes, once you have created a map you can define legend values for different marker colors.

https://www.zeemaps.com/world-of-maps/]]> 2018-07-23 13:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270867122 3) Mathstretch App davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270867238 Math Stretch provides a suite of activities for developing elementary math skills and number sense. Specifically, activities target counting, number relations and operations, and telling and manipulating time. ... Math Stretch now includes whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sas-math-stretch/id607137453?mt=8]]> 2018-07-23 13:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270867238 2) Desmos davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270867492 Desmos is a free graphing and teaching tool for math. In addition to plotting equations, classroom activities are available to help students learn about a variety of math concepts. For example, students can learn how to transform periodic functions by trying to slide marbles through points on a graph.
https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/desmos]]> 2018-07-23 13:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270867492 1) FLIPGRID davidlbalmer https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270867558 Flipgrid is a FREE website/App that allows teachers to create "grids" of short discussion-style questions that students respond to through recorded videos. Each grid is effectively a message board where teachers can pose a question and their students can post 90-second video responses that appear in a tiled "grid" display.

https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/flipgrid]]> 2018-07-23 13:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/davidlbalmer/C4CSP2/wish/270867558